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Peter Jackson was born in New Zealand in 1961. He is a film director, producer, actor and screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003) which earned him multiple Academy Awards. He is also known for his work in King Kong (2005) and District 9 (2009).

Throughout his career, now spanning more than 30 years, Peter Jackson have become known for his trademarks which include his attention to detail, and the habit of shooting scenes from many different angles. His earlier films displayed a grisly sense of humour and a general playfulness. His quest for perfect has made him renowned within the New Zealand film industry often shooting a scene from as many different angles as possible hence giving him more options during editing. This habit has also led him to spend days shooting a single scene. With scenes featuring simple dialogue, he would often use a range of camera angles and shot sizes as well as close-ups of faces to capture expressions.

For most of his career, Jackson has remained in his home country of New Zealand to make films. He was appointed a Companion in the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2002 and has won three Academy Awards including the award for Best Director for The Return of the King.

My favorite movie_leo_xu

Toy Story is a computer animated movie made in 1995 and directed by John Lasseter. It is about what toys get up to when people are not around. Woody the cowboy, is Andy’s favourite toy but when Buzz Lightyear, a space ranger, becomes Andy’s new favourite toy, Woody becomes jealous and the two toys develop a not so friendly relationship. Woody plots to get rid of Buzz by a variety of means but in the end only finds himself lost in the real world with only Buzz as company. The two must then work together to find their way home and on the way forge a genuine friendship and learn that only through trust, and cooperation do they have a chance of survival.

Toy Story was the first completely computer generated animated movie. Storyboards were initially used to assist animators create the characters. Once created, each character was made out of clay before reaching the computer. 400 computer models were then used to animate the characters. Software programs were coded to create articulation and motion. Additional touches such as lighting and shading and other visual effects were added last in the animation process. During post production, sound and music were added.

It was a big hit both with adults and children. The younger audience loved it for its vibrant colours, lovable characters and clever and adventurous storyline. The more mature audience appreciated the movie for its heartfelt messages and the amazing graphics which brought the characters to life. Overall, the movie was a universal success and to this day is still a much loved classic.

1831_Director Analysis_Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson is a New Zealand film director, who was born in 1961. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of the famous film by him, which adapted from the novel by J.R.R Tolkien. King kong is also known for he remade it in 2005.

The Lord of Rings trilogy win eleven Academy Awards, including Best picture and Best director and it was the first of the fantasy film genre to win this awards.

Jackson remade the 1993 classic King Kong in 2005. This film was releases on 14 December 2005, and get around US$550 million in ticket sales in the world.

Compare with some other directors, Jackson is still in his native country to make film. Most of his assets are found on the Miramar Peninsula in his hometown of Wellington of his filming occurs. He was an early use computer technology and digital special effected of Hollywood film.

He won three Academy Awards for The return of king, including the Best Director.

Reference: http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/lists/list.asp?id=47

2644_Director_James Cameron

James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, and inventor. His writing and directing work includes The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), True Lies (1994), Titanic (1997), and Avatar (2009). In the time between making Titanic and his return to feature films with Avatar, Cameron spent some years creating documentary films, and also co-developing the digital 3-D Fusion Camera System. Described by a biographer as part-scientist and part-artist, Cameron has also contributed to underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies.

Today, the record that the 13-year history of the world’s total box office has kept by Titanic is broken by the movie Avatar with 1.859 billion U.S. dollars. He realized the self-transcendence easily. He became “The king of the world” once again. Cameron's Titanic and Avatar are the two highest-grossing films of all time.

For Film counterparts, he is a director who is one of the most “burning money” and most “making money” in Hollywood. He was described as a tyrant. For fans, there is only one in the world. That is a great hero Cameron, a great genius Cameron, unmatched and omnipotent director, James Cameron.

Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cameron
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000116/

Assignment 2 - Short Answer Question

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Jack Bender is originally from Los Angeles, and studied at the USC School of Theatre. Before working as a director, Bender also worked briefly as an actor. His first directing was in local theater, and later John Houseman started him in his career in television directing. In particular he has directed on Ally McBeal and The Sopranos.

His best work is "lost"

2733_Director Analysis

Sofia Coppola was born in New York City in 1971.She is a famous screen-writer, film director, actress and producer. She was the third female film director to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing. Most her films are about female theme and talk about societal, family and mental problems from female angle.
Her first famous three films were Lick the Star(1998), The Virgin Sucides(1999) and Lost in Translation(2003).She used 27 days to complete the Virgin Sucides with a distinctive feminine traits which show her outstanding talent. Lost in Translation won the Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards. In her films she usually uses a lot of colors and techniques to affect film theme.

Reference;
1.http://www.talltalestruetales.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/sofia-coppola.jpg
2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Coppola

one of my favourite directors-Kenny Ortega

One of my favourite directors is Kenny Ortega. Acturaaly, i do not know so much directors caz i just foucus on the films on the past :P. After I learn this subject, I starts to focus on the director,characters and the shots of the film~! What a big change!!? lol~

Kenny Ortega is an American producer, director, and choregrapher! I know him from my one of favourite movies "High School Musical".

I think Kenny is a superb director. He not only shot this amazing film but also help to creat the dance for the film. He know what his audiences need and always bring the new fresh feeling to us!

He make a good balance with the music and the plot of "High School Mucial", it doesn't bring to much heavy emotion for the movie but showing the enthusiasm of the characters. And it makes a same feeling to the audiences.

In 2008 Ortega was honored as one of the most powerful and influential Hispanics in entertainment by the Imagen Foundation. [1 ]

Besides, Kenny Ortega also directed the concert film Michael Jackson's This Is It which was put together from rehearsal footage recorded at the Los Angeles Forum and the Staples Center. The film was released on October 28.[2]

He is so cool! XP

Reference:[1] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Ortega

[2] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Ortega

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Director information
Director :Quentin Tarantino
Born :March 27, 1963
Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation:Film director, producer, screenwriter,cinematographer, actor.
Stephen Foster Medley :

Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs

Director analys

Quentin Tarantino is a very famous flim producer in America. Generally,Quentin Tarantino's
flim is not just tell a story to people but rather than reflect real human's action. He fully realizes that how important a character in a flim and develop with the character. On the other hand Quentin Tarantino look very carefully about the dialogue in a film, he deeply believes that good dialogue would bring strong impressive to audience and make them whatch it over and over again. Quentin Tarantino present each character very successful in his film, people even can reflect something from some of his movie's character, Tarantino is a persion who can trully give his audience strong felling from acyor's action and dialogue.

Kill Bill is one of Quentin Tarantino film, it is so successful and so impressive. Kill Bill perfectly describe both two points used in this film witch are characters and dialogue. This story talking about "The bride" revenge to her lover"Bill", she all action forcus on her revenging. Her behaviour reflect her felling all the time like looking for Bill and seeking information from his relations. Even her every singel words are aimed "Bill", the question witch she asked so strongly and so powful.Quentin Trantino use thouse of effections deeply express his characters feeling.

Quentin Tarantino can catch audience's mind and dip it to hell, so that his film make he become a successful directer.


Reference list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266697/plotsummary

2485_Harry Director:Sophia Coppola

She is the first successful female director and She used young actress and actor in all her film.She used yellow color in The Virgin Suicides. It used sex and blood in the film. It talked about why young people killed them self in American.
On the other hand,In the Lost of translation, Sophia Coppola used young actress, the movie made in Japan and it talked about the young lady live in Japan with her husband but she is lonely in the Japan then she met a man in the pub and after they become friends.She used lots of color in the film.
Sophia Coppola wrote lots of books, for example NEW YORK STORIES(1989),Lick the star(1998), the Virgin Suicides(1999), Platinum(2003), Lost in Translation(2003), Marie Antoinette.(http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=Sophia+Coppola)
She is a third woman in history and the first American woman to be nominated for a best Director Academy Award.Also in 2004, she became the first American woman ever nominated for best director Oscar.(http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=Sophia+Coppola)
Lost of translation image:

It had lots of technique in the film, in this image, it used medium shot and it shows two people are drinking bear and chatting together.

Kill Bill Script

Kill Bill script

The house bunny review

It is a romantic comedy film. It was directed by Fred Wolf.
This film is about Shelley must find a new life after leaving the luxurious life in Playboy Mansion. Then she acts as house mother in Zetas sorority. The members of Zetas sorority are not popular on campus. They will lose their house for lack of members. In order to save their family, Shelly teaches these girls everything that attracts others’ attention. However when Zeta girls become more popular on campus, they also lose themselves. At the end of this film, Shelley and Zeta girls succeed in saving their house. Warm colors make this film more romantic. This comedy film also reminds us be ourselves, do not change ourselves for pleasing other people.

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This May Help U: Reservoir Dogs Screenplay

If you have problem in understanding the plot or the language in Reservoir Dogs. The screenplay may help you better understand the movie and the non-linear narrative structure. This also can be download from the Resources about Films section on the right of this blogger.

Reservoir Dogs Screenplay

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